On Saturday morning we woke up to see where we had parked in the dark! It was flat and open and pretty boring, which was fine because we hit the road right after breakfast.
Backing out of campsite in Roswell
We stopped at Brownfield, TX to gas up and empty out the RV tanks. It was crazy windy!
The kids found some red clay at the park by the RV park we were dumping at. The dirty hands were an interesting combination with our black water dumping activities.
A few hours of driving later, the Hays got a flat tire on the highway. They had double tires so they could still drive, but it was louder than normal and someone from another car signaled to them that they should pull over. We limped off the highway in Eastland, TX and tried to drive to a repair shop, but it was closed. We were on route to another one when the other tire gave out, so we rolled to a stop in front of a very nice lady's house. She did a remarkably good job of reinforcing my stereotype of friendly Texans.
We took off again, but not long later the Hays said that there was still a vibrating sound, so we stopped at Big D Tire services (which also had a Bid D liquor store and Big D car wash- Big D is quite the entrepreneur). They looked at it and added some air but didn't notice anything wrong.
The kids playing hide and seek in Big D's patch of tall grass. I was so impressed by their ability to have a good time wherever we found ourselves. It was definitely less aggravating for them than it was for us, and having their good attitudes really helped make the day of tire trouble tolerable.
We decided it was ok to keep driving and headed to to Railhead Smokehouse BBQ for dinner. I was changing Isaac's diaper in the bathroom there when a lady came in. I was kind of blocking her way so I apologized and scootched to the side, but she very firmly said "no, don't apologize! Thank YOU for having children!" Later she came and told Lakin and I that she would buy us all dinner if she could and gave us pro-life pins in the shape of tiny feet with a little pamphlet.
We rolled in late at night to the Bagg's house. It was so good to see them again!
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